Falafel King calls Helen Thomas a pinhead.

Crooks and Liars:

This was a complete fabrication, aided in no small part by White House spokesperson Dana Perino’s twisting of Helen’s words at the podium. Notice how O’Reilly purposefully began his clip not with Helen’s question, but with Perino’s response to it:

O’Reilly: On the pinhead front far left Washington corespondent Helen Thomas put forth that the American military is targeting civilians in Iraq, and got scolded for it.

[video clip] Dana Perino: Helen, I find it really unfortunate that you use your front row position bestowed upon you by your colleagues to make such statements. This is. It is an honor and a privilege to be in the briefing room, and to suggest that we, at the United States, are killing innocent people is just absurd and very offensive. …

He is neck and neck with Beck for the gold...